"My Own Feeling of Unease in Living with and on the Internet": Director Bo Burnham | Eighth Grade

As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and unpredictable? What roles did chaos and order play in your films? Chaos was pretty much the name of the game for our film. Our film concerns two very specific and incredibly chaotic times: eighth grade and right now -- and we wanted to portray those times honestly. Not to interpret what was happening and pr...